Working with fixed-scope and fixed-budget projects is perhaps one of the biggest product management challenges I have encountered. In this article, I will describe my experience in applying different technical and management practices that, when carried out at different stages, prove to help with these challenges: Avoiding the generation of change requests Adjusting to the initial budget Maximizing the delivery …
I’ll understand if you read the title of this post and smirked. I probably would have done so, opening it up only to see what profound wisdom awaited me. Review the code, Captain Obvious. So yes, rest assured, I understand the easy assumption that one can ascertain a codebase’s quality by opening it up and starting to review it. …
In a sense, application code serves as the great organizational equalizer. Large or small, complex or simple, enterprise or startup, all organizations with in-house software wrangle with similar issues. Oh, don’t misunderstand. I realize that some shops write web apps, others mobile apps, and still others hodgepodge line of business software. But when you peel away domain, interaction, and delivery …